Men and women have many wild fears that are very unlikely to ever come true except perhaps in a dream that lurches into a nightmare that seems so real that it must be real.

Perhaps being a fellow traveller in a coach or a train carriage and realising, whether in a sudden jolt or a slowly rising uneasy feeling of horror, that your fellow occupants might not actually be from this world, but more probably from the next, would be such a situation.

We delighted to now put you in such good company! Indeed Amelia Edwards, E F Benson, Violet Hunt, Rudyard Kipling and the incisive talents of many others would definitely like you along for the ride.

The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

The Coach by Violet Hunt

Passenger From Crewe by Frederick Cowles

Room For One by Frederick Cowles

The Murder in an Omnibus by Harold Begbie

The Bus Conductor by E F Benson

The 9.30 Up-Train by Sabine Baring-Gould